Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
I-2
Heavy Industrial
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right58
- Forestry and logging
- Sawmill, commercial
- Newspaper or magazine publishing
- Radio or television broadcast studio
- Telecommunications facility, collocated
- Telecommunications tower
- Vocational or trade school
- Fire or EMS station
- Fire training facility
- Government maintenance, storage, or distribution facility
- Law enforcement facility
- Park or greenway
- Helicopter landing facility
- Surface transportation passenger station/terminal
- Utility use, major
- Utility use, minor
- Data center
- Contractor's office
- Professional offices
- Marina, commercial
- Recreation facility, commercial indoor
- Recreation facility, commercial outdoor
- Recreation facility, nonprofit
- Recreation facility, public
- Automotive painting or body shop
- Automotive repair and servicing
- Automotive wrecker service
- Gas station
- Parking lot or parking structure (as a principal use)
- Tire sales and mounting
- Commercial landscape operation
- Educational, scientific, or industrial research and development
- Commercial industrial services
- General industrial services
- Heavy equipment repair and servicing
- Heavy equipment sales, rental, or storage
- Metal-working, welding, pipe fitting, or woodworking
- Moving and storage establishment
- Printing or other similar reproduction facility
- Woodworking
- Asphalt or concrete plant
- Bottling plant
- Brewery or distillery
- Manufacturing, assembly, or fabrication, heavy
- Manufacturing, assembly, or fabrication, light
- Artisan food and beverage production
- Micro-brewery or micro-distillery
- Winery
- Outdoor storage (as a principal use)
- Truck or freight terminal
- Warehouse, distribution or storage
- Convenience center, county
- Junkyard/salvage yard
- Resource recovery facility
- Recycling drop-off center
- Wholesale trade establishment
- Wood and stump recycling business
- Contractor's storage yard
Conditional / special use15
- Livestock market
- Solar energy farm
- Animal shelter/pound
- Kennel, commercial
- Business service establishment
- Amusement park
- Motorsports park
- Shooting range, commercial
- Truck stop
- Truck hauler business
- Fuel oil or bottled gas distribution or storage
- Abattoir
- Hazardous material collection site
- Land clearing debris disposal facility
- Minor meat processing
Accessory16
- Amateur radio antenna
- Automatic teller machine (ATM)
- Canopy, nonresidential drive-through
- Electric vehicle (EV) level 1 or 2 charging station
- Electric vehicle (EV) level 3 charging station
- Fuel oil or bottled gas distribution or storage, limited
- Open space, park, playground, or recreational facility
- Outdoor display and sale of merchandise
- Outdoor storage (as an accessory use)
- Parking or storage of large vehicles (see section 83-438(r))
- Rainwater cistern
- Private recycling bins
- Satellite dish
- Small wind energy system
- Solar energy collection system
- Television or radio antenna
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. (50 ft)50 ft
Fifty ft. for accessory uses and structures and parking lots.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the Heavy Industrial (I-2) District is to accommodate heavy industrial uses that are large-scale or generally involve greater potential for adverse off-site impacts on the environment and surrounding development...